3rd Creative Mackintosh Festival in Glasgow – from 1st to 31 October 2014

Throughout October 2014, the third annual Creative Mackintosh festival celebrates the creative achievements of Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Glasgow’s most famous architect, designer and artist.

October becomes ‘Mackintosh month’ as visitors and locals alike are invited to enjoy a programme of events with a focus on architecture, design, visual arts and crafts in the city where he lived and worked.

From Wednesday 1st to Friday 31st of October, over 30 different events and exhibitions will take place across the main Mackintosh attractions, buildings and collections in and around Glasgow.

From walks, workshops and exhibitions to performances and talks, events are designed for all ages, to appeal to those who know nothing about Mackintosh, as well as established aficionados.

The programme will feature a range of formats with free exhibitions and workshops, ticketed tours and sociable evenings with food and drink.

Exhibition The Cradle of Art Nouveau. Victor Horta and Brussels at Pelgrims House in Brussels – from 11 to 28 September 2014

Created by the Brussels Capital Region, richly illustrated, the exhibition highlights the most beautiful realisations of the architect Victor Horta, registered on the list of the UNESCO World Heritage Site and plunge the visitor in the intimacy of the creation of one of the greatest Art Nouveau artists, movement which has revolutionized the European spatial and architectural conceptions at the dawn of the XXth century. The Tassel, Solvay and Van Eetvelde Hôtels, as well as the personal house of the architect mix with the dismantled magnificence of the Aubecq Hôtel, demolished during the 1950’s, but of which a part of the façades, as a giant jigsaw, was recently put back together.

Exhibition Silver Age at the Belvedere Museum in Vienna – until 28 September 2014

Russian Art in Vienna around 1900

The Belvedere’s exhibition Silver Age - Russian Art in Vienna around 1900, scheduled for summer 2014, is devoted to Russian art and the cultural relations between Russia and Austria at the beginning of the twentieth century. The term Silver Age refers to the cultural bloom in Russian literature and the visual arts after 1900 and is considered an equivalent to the German expression Jugendstil or Art Nouveau.

The exhibition Silver Age - Russian Art in Vienna around 1900 presents works by such Russian artists as Michail Vrubel, Valentin Serov, Nicholas Roerich, and Boris Kustodiev, whose pictures were on display in Vienna more than one hundred years ago, and illustrates the mutual influences of this cultural exchange between Russian and Austrian art.

The next European Heritage Days in the Brussels-Capital Region will take place on 20 and 21 September 2014 and will be dedicated to “History and memory”. This theme will enable to present buildings which were witness of major historical events, destination venues of remarkable persons, known artists, writers or philosophers and welcome places of historical associations.
Museum institutions dedicated to history as well as monuments or commemorative public spaces, of which those erected in remembrance of First and Second World Wars, will be also highlighted.
Art Nouveau buildings, such as the Ciamberlani hotel, will be open!
More information and programme

Place where Nature is everywhere present, the Ecole de Nancy Museum is particularly close of the thematic of these European Heritage Days, “Cultural heritage – natural heritage”!
To go into this subject in depth, the museum invites its visitors to linger at the garden to discover the essences carefully cultivated by the service of parks and gardens of the City of Nancy, and to play at the little game of connections with the works of the museum with the help of a booklet specially published.

The horticulture and landscape School of Roville-aux-Chênes will also exhibit in the garden a selection of anemone.
And also:
Jamble sale of exhibition catalogues
Free visit of the permanent collections